The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-19

A Man Killed by a Fall Down Wei
at Elljay-- Thousands of Acres o
Land Sold for soc. Per Acre IL
GiLner and Fannin Counties.
GEORGIA
A Masonic hall and academy will b.
erected at Jesup soon.
The Ordinary, on the petition of over 00t
voters, has called an election on the question
Of bonding Laurens county for Wednesday
Dec. 81.
The fourth quarterly meeting of the Sum
ter County Sabbath School Association will
be held in Americus. at the Methodist
church, on Thursday, Nov. "a.
The cotton crop of Wilkes county brings
IN nearly Sl,000000. This gives an average
of about $50 TO every man, woman and child,
white and black, in the county,
At Augusta Thursday the special commit
tee of the Council decided TO allow the cleo
trio light wires to remain in use as at pres
ent, provided that where they enter houses
they be properly insulated.
In spite of the long drought the sweet po-
tato crop has turned out a remarkable yield
in Middle Georgia this year. A Twiggs
county farmer was in Macon Thursday, and
said that he should have to carry back a
part of his load of potatoes, because he could
not afford TO sell them at 40c and SOC. He
held them at 65c, and could not get no bid
at over SOC. The grocers retail at from Soc.
to 81.
A party of men of Augusta have organ
lied a company, termed the Middle Georgia
Land Improvement Company, for the pur-
pose of building up resort where the little
town of Gracewood, on the narrow-gauge
road, now stands The place is 800 feet
above the city and only eight miles out.
They have purchased it and will erect a
hotel and convert it into both a winter and
summer resort
Thirty-seven years ago the lot on New
castle street, Brunswick, on which are
located the stores of J. B. Wright, D. T.
Dunn, g. II. Merriield, Mrs. Smith and
others, was sold for $500, and that was CON
Sidered big price for it. To-day it would
probably take 5000 TO buy any of the six
sections of it, with the building torn away
That is probably the most valuable piece of
ground in the city.
r. w. W l.s.r of Columbus purchased a
large tract OF wild land in Gilmer and Fan
min counties last week. He represents a cor
poration in Columbus that viii very likely
invest more extensively in that section. He
bought twenty-five lots in Gilmer county.
and fifty-eight in Fannin. making eighty
lots, or L, 800 acres1n all. for which he
paid about $4,000 lie states that he would
not take double the amount for the prop
eJGy.
While the Georgia Midland was switching
some cars on to the Central track at Griffin
Tuesday one of the cars ran Off the track
and ran some II or ID feet on the cross-ties.
A number of hands were at work on the
Central road, and, seeing the car off the
track, they signaled the engineer to stop,
but before he could stop the train the car,
which bad been as far as 6 or s inches from
the rail, jumped back and went on as if it
had never been off, thus doing by itself the
work that often takes hours to accomplish
At Bruins SlVT Saturday Marshal J. b.
Dart, IN company with other hunters. Went
TO the depot to take the Brunswick and
Western train for trip up the road short
distance TO take hunt, each having his gun
along. He took with him his two old hounds
and young puppy, the latter being tied
WIN string. As soon as the train pulled
up and before the Marshal made any move
toward it, the two old dogs walked delibel-
ately across the street to the train walked
IN and lay down perfectly content, seeming
to comprehend the situation thoroughly.
James Allen, William before and Thomas
earty cut down "a tree of the short straw
variety in Walden's creek swamp, near
what is known as the cypress lake, Dodge
county, from which they rived over ) 900
two-foot boards The first four blocks made
lb7 boards, and one cut of the four made
3Oo. The first seven .s.;made over . eco
These gentlens,l save off TWENTY-FIVE
blocks Of the tree, from which they rived.
BY actual count, 5000 all good heart
boards that Will average ; inches in width
They say there is enough of this immense
monarch OF the forest left, if sawed into
plank, to build a small house.
At Bailey Sheriff Branch discovered last
saturday evening on entering the Jail that
the iron door shutter TO the front door had
been tempered with. He secured some helm
and went in to see what was up. He found
that the prisoners five in NUMBER had torn
up cross-bar over one of the trap doors,
and had been pricing at the front door
hinges, and had got it so that he could not
LOCK IT. They had also gone into one of the
lower cells and had torn up the flooring,
out found that there were heavy timbsrs
under the floor which they could not pet
through. Had Mr. Branch not discovered
the work they were doing, in all probability
ghey would have made good their escape
during the night,
More than ten months ago a man living
near Franklin fed to Texas. Two citizens
became engaged in a friendly lawsuit over
some property he left behind One attached
1t and the other filed a claim. The case re-
manned in the Justices Court until Wednes-
day, the property having been sold by CON
seHb Soulo time ago. w edneSQaY the parties
announced ready for a final trial. A con
terence between the attorneys showed that
after paying the costs, leaving out
heavy bill Of witness fees, there was lust
S0c. left They called the witnesses aside
aud proposed to give them all the money
involved in the suit if they would accept It
m satisfaction of fees, to which they agreed.
When the announcement was made the court
smiled, the parties put their heads together
for a confidential talk, the ATTORNEYS looked
like orphans a great distance from home.
the witnesses pocketed 90c. and there was
great calm.
1t is said that an old Confederate soldier
irving in Pulaski county wrote to Gen
Beauregard and enclosed dollar for a tick
ct in the Louisiana State Lottery, and the wri-
ter took occasion TO say to Gen Beauregard
that he had followed the General four wears
IN the army and that he was poor. and
wanted the General to select for him a
ticket that would draw prize in
the lottery. According to the adver-
tlsement Gen. Beaureguard and Gen.
Early superintendent the drawing
of the Louisiana Lottery every month, and
the soldier thought that Gen. Beauregard
could select the right ticket for a prize
Gen. Beauregard, it is said, answered the
old soldiers letter, and enclosed the ticket
as requested for the dollar, but gave the
following bit of advice: MY Dear Old
Comrade: If you will stick to the Louisi.
ana Lottery you will be as poor as YOU were